Interactive Friction: Mirror’s Edge: Episode 4: Mattress Crates
In this episode, we beat up a former wrestler and jump off a crane.This is still a decent level, but it's not hard to notice that it's not quite as good as the first few levels in the game. As Mirror's Edge goes on, the...
Interactive Friction: Mirror’s Edge: Episode 3: Job Description
In this episode, we get down and dirty in the cleanest, most pristine sewers on Earth.It feels weird to criticize this game for anything involving its story content. I say that mostly because it clearly wasn't a major focus of the game. It's not accident...
Interactive Friction: Mirror’s Edge: Episode 2: Wrong Door
You may be surprised at how gushy we are about Mirror's Edge, given that our previous was...
Interactive Friction: Mirror’s Edge: Episode 1: Running Start
After a very long break, we're finally back. Welcome, ladies and gentleman, to the fourth season of Interactive Friction. We picked Mirror's Edge for two big reasons:We were exhausted by the end of Watch_Dogs, and needed a breather. Mirror's Edge is a very short game,...
Interactive Friction: Season 4 Sneak Peak
You probably though we were done. You probably thought Watch_Dogs destroyed us so completely that we'd never Let's Play again.You're probably an arbitrary strawman I've picked out for the sake of drama.In any case, we'll be back, starting tomorrow. Sam even made a new trailer...
Interactive Friction: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth 1
In case you weren't aware, Sam really enjoys anime. Though I joke about anime a lot, I don't have any particular like or hate of it. Sam's friend Taylor, who I've spoken to a few times, is also an avid anime fan. So what happens...
Interactive Friction: Watch_Dogs: Episode 23: Season *Finally*!
And so it ends. This is the final mission of the game, and it's one of the dumbest things I've seen. In a different context, this ending could be fine. If we were slowly building to an antagonist that had all of your Ct_OS...
Interactive Friction: Watch_Dogs: Episode 22: The Uncanny Valley Of Evil
The scene between Aiden Pearce and Lucky Quinn is by far the best scene in the game, aside from those between Aiden and Jordy. There's a fair degree of subtext and subtlety in their back-and-forth that it's surprising that the same people who created this...
Interactive Friction: Watch_Dogs: Episode 21: Family Ties
This is the point where all of the many criticisms we've be directed at Watch_Dogs that to coalesce. Like the game, we start to tie up all of our loose-ends as we head towards the final stretch.It's amazing that even after forcing his family to...
Interactive Friction: Watch_Dogs: Episode 20: Where in the World in Joseph DeMarco?
It's interesting to compare the mission in the club here versus what they showed off at the original E3 reveal.I can see what they were going for in the E3 reveal trailer, even watching it back now. There's this very clear sense of progression from...